Behold the Prospect Park West Bike Lane!
Huge news, courtesy of a Park Slope tipster: The much-anticipated and hotly-debated Prospect Park West bike lane is upon us. Evidently the lines, shown here in this photo, were laid down just this morning. Photo by Joanna Oltman Smith
Huge news, courtesy of a Park Slope tipster: The much-anticipated and hotly-debated Prospect Park West bike lane is upon us. Evidently the lines, shown here in this photo, were laid down just this morning.
Photo by Joanna Oltman Smith
Apparently, the bike lane is being rolled out on a provisional basis. If it gets a lot of use, it will stay. If it isn’t, then Marty Markowitz gets his parking spaces back.
So, ride your bike!!!
Agree with commenters above who say next step is doing something about what goes on in the park. Between cars and meander-thals and NYPD who could care less, it’s a war on cyclists in there. Never seen so much road space so poorly used.
Sounds from all your rants that you’re just not a very good driver, tybur.
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And finally NYC enters the 21st Century with regard to bike culture.
Love this.
Denton, I think they’ll be adding another lane to divide the bike lane in 2 and also adding those plastic barrier things, so no car is going to mistake this for a parking lane when it’s complete.
This is actually really thoughtfully designed.
Rob — I have no problem with that…. just don’t sue me when I crush you and your baby standing in the middle of the road.
I think this is great. I didn’t realize they were also doing the buffer to keep bicyclists from being doored by cars in the parking lane.
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Pretty exciting… I don’t think you have to worry about the bikes as much as these people/carriages/dogs standing IN the bike lane and/or buffer stripes INSTEAD of WHERE THEY SHOULD BE waiting… i.e., on the sidewalk.
excuse me, but feet trumps ALL. people can stand wherever they please.
*rob*
What will really be fun is seeing what all the cars do that drive to the Greenmarket on the weekend (now _that’s_ green). They’ll probably think the bike lane is a big parking lot.
we also desperately need a stroller lane and a scooter lane as well as a fast walker lane.
But in the end, this is Brooklyn so people will continue doing whatever the hell they feel like and will continue to yell at, and complain about, each other.
woohoo! This is so great. Long overdue! I think this will only make this world class park even better and finally, we’ll be able to bike to the north end of park slope without being a. run down on 8th avenue, b. riding on sidewalk, or c. going the wrong way on the park drive.